Post - Different Truths

June 19, 2016
Amit Singh
Cover Story, Human Rights, Migration & Diaspora

India in need of National Policy on Refugees

India has not signed 1951 Refugee Convention. There is no specific domestic legal framework to protect the rights of refugees and asylum seekers in India. This has led to legal insecurity...

June 19, 2016
Lily Swarn
Cover Story, Human Rights, People

The Partition

The partition of India is a deep gash in our collective consciousness. Millions of people from West Punjab and East Bengal were rendered homeless. There were hunger, rape, loss of human...

June 19, 2016
Madhumita Ghosh
Cover Story, Human Rights, People

Religious dissension partitioned of India in 1947. Two states, Bengal and Punjab, were spliced into two. An entire repertoire of Bengali literature, with its distinct echoes in cinema, documents the agony....

June 19, 2016
The Significant League
Advocacy, Cover Story, Poem

An Anthology of World Refugee Day Poems

The Significant League (TSL) and Different Truths (DT) together offer an Anthology on World Refugee Day (WED), the fifth tie-up between the two. Seventy two poems, one be each poet,...

June 18, 2016
Arindam Roy
Advocacy, Announcement

42,500 People Flee per day: Let us Reach out and Resolve the Refugee Crises

Arindam delves into a personal experience, growing up as a boy in a refugee family. The grim reality of the refugee problem stares us in the face. According to...

June 18, 2016
Shail Raghuvanshi
Potpourri

Letter from a Daughter to her Father

Staying far away from her father, who lives all by himself, despite his advancing age, Shail writes a soulful letter to her father, Papa. This is a part of the...

June 18, 2016
Lopamudra Banerjee
Poem

Of Fathers, and Daughters

A dedication on Father’s Day On the occasion of Father’s Day, this poem is Lopamudra’s small dedication to the bond that her daughters share with their father, her husband, and...

June 18, 2016
Subhajit Sanyal
Potpourri

Missing Baba

Here’s Subhajit’s homage to his father, his best friend, on Father’s Day as part of special feature in Different Truths. “Every child grows into a holistic person when he is...

June 18, 2016
Maya Khandelwal
Book Club, Potpourri

Dad and The Longings

Here are two chapters of the autobiographical novel, A Beautiful Mistake, by Maya Khandelwal. The author says, “These are two of my favourite chapters from my novel that beautifully describes my...

June 17, 2016
Arindam Roy
Announcement

The Many Manifestations of Father

Arindam explores the various meanings and manifestations of fatherhood ahead of the Father’s Day. He presents a preview of the special feature on this occasion in Different Truths. Through seven pieces,...

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